Archive for June, 2010

The Clinical Queries page in PubMed has been redesigned to filter searches by three clinical research areas: Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, and Medical Genetics. See the NLM Technical Bulletin for more information.

Posted on behalf of Joey Nicholson, National Training Center & Clearinghouse, National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Social Justice lies at the heart of public health. It is central to its mission and is frequently described as public health’s core value. The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work, play a greater role in longevity and overall health in the United States than genes, health insurance and access to health services…Ultimately education, transportation and housing policies affect the health of people. The challenge for any government–municipal, regional, state and federal–is to introduce health consequences into all discussions of social policies.

These opening lines in this year’s Preliminary Program for the 138th Annual American Public Health Association Meeting and Exposition really help set the tone to explain why social justice is a public health imperative. Join us in Denver at APHA this year November 6-10, 2010 to explore this link and discover more about the social determinants of health!

With the award, The Sewell Fund aims to increase librarians’ effectiveness at providing reliable and relevant information to health care professionals in the fields of public health and pharmacy. To achieve this purpose, the Fund awards reimbursement funds to librarians and other information professionals to defray association membership/registration/travel and per diem expenses of attending and/or participating in activities of the American Public Health Association (APHA).

Please download an application form and read all the requirements via the PH/HA website at http://phha.mlanet.org/call.html. Applications are due Friday July 23, 2010. If you have any questions, please e-mail Joey directly at jnicholson@nyam.org.

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Our colleagues in the Mid-Continental Region are hosting their annual Wyoming Symposium in July and would like to extend an invitation to our region, especially the neighboring states of Montana and Idaho! The focus of this year’s Symposium is Health Literacy and Health Information Literacy. (more…)

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MyBibliography, a feature of MyNCBI, was designed to allow PubMed users to maintain lists of articles they have authored. MyBibliography now includes an Awards view, which is a color-coded interface allowing authors (or their designated proxies) to track and manage their articles’ compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. MyBibliography draws information from PubMed, PubMed Central, and the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system.

MyBibliography is replacing eRA Commons as the mechanism for NIH-funded authors to maintain their publication lists. eRA Commons will not accept any new citations after July 23, 2010. eRA Commons users should establish MyNCBI accounts, then link those accounts to eRA Commons in order to transfer the citations. Detailed instructions are on how to do this are provided on the eRA Commons homepage.